Stanislav Byshok, Alexey Kochetkov
NeoNazis & Euromaidan: From Democracy to Dictatorship [Second edition]
"Whoever is not jumping is a Moskal" is a chant that women and men of different ages who took to Kiev Independence Square in winter 2013-2014 repeated trying to get warm. They kept jumping and laughing, for nobody in the brave new world of the Ukrainian revolution under Stepan Banderas banner fancied gaining the character of a staunch enemy of Ukrainian statehood.
Mass demonstrations of angry citizens in Ukraine had objective reasons. This was a protest against ineffective and corrupt government, against police and bureaucratic abuse of power, against unclear and dead-end policies of the President and the Government.
All national libera on movements use the popular ideas and political sentiments that dominate the society as their positive manifesto.
Thus, exclusively left-wing ideologies were mainstream in the Russian Empire in 1917, radical Islamism was most popular in Arab countries during the Arab spring of 2012, whereas nationalism, also radical, turned mainstream in the Ukraine of 2013-2014.
The book describes the development of Ukraines nationalist groups since 1991 until present day. It focuses on the history of the parliamentary right-wing radical Svoboda party and the non-parliamentary Right Sector movement. The authors study the ideology, psychology and methods of political struggle of these structures.
The experts seek to answer the question: how did the radical neo-Nazi groups manage to become the key driving force behind the Ukrainian revolution?
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Stanislav Byshok, Alexey Kochetkov, 2014
Alexei Semenov, 2014
Translation Anna E. Nikiforova, PhD in political science